Mercedes: POV

Noah & I were talking at my locker before going to the choir room when Anna came up to us. "Hi!"

"Hi!" I waved.

"Sup?" Noah nodded.

"I talked to my parents & they want to meet you." Anna said.

I brightened. Parents loved me. "Alright! What day?"

"Saturday. They want to have dinner."

Noah grimaced. "What time Saturday?"

"Eight o'clock."

He frowned. "I'd have to miss temple."

"We can try to reschedule." Anna said quickly.

"I can do it. I'll just miss temple."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, it's one night. I won't go to hell for missing one night."

Anna giggled.

I rolled my eyes at Noah. Silly man. "You know? I was thinking. I should call you something. We both have nicknames for each other so you should have one for us & us for you."

"Ooh! I've never had a nickname before! Everyone just calls me Anna. So lame." She rolled her eyes.

"I think I want to call you Annie. For Annie Oakley. I love her." I decided.

She perked up. "I love that!"

Noah rubbed his chin & squinted at her. "Kick. Short for kickass. Mama's badass; you can be kickass."

Anna- ahem! Annie grinned. "I like that so much!"

He inclined his head. He was so proud of himself!

"What can I call you guys? You go by your names."

"My real name's Noah."

"I never knew. That's such a nice name." She batted her lashes.

"If you like his name, you're going to love mine!" I boasted.

"Here we go." Noah muttered.

I hit his stomach with the back of my hand. "Yes, here we go!"

Annie's grey eyes sparkled at us…- we weren't arguing. "Where are we going?"

"My name is very important to me." I told her.

"She's special because she's named after places & people." Noah said.

"I am special!" I don't know what he's talking about!

Annie giggled. "Who are you named after?"

"My grandmothers." I said proudly.

"You have a grandmother named Mercedes?"

"No. Mercedes is where I was conceived."

"Ew!" She wrinkled her nose.

"I know." I waved that away. "It's just a fact. But Mercedes is still a name. The man named the car after his daughter. But I'm named after a city in Brazil."

"How are you named after your grandmothers?"

"I have two first names." I held up my index & middle fingers. "My name is Mercedes Catherine."

"I've never met anyone with two first names before." Her eyebrows moved.

"You've met Marcy."

"Marcy has two first names?!"

"So does our oldest brother, Marc."

"Wow. So who are you named after?"

"My second first name is after my maternal grandmother. My middle name is my paternal grandmother's first name. Marcy has their middle names."

"Isn't your grandmother's name Christina?" Noah asked.

"Yes." I nodded.

"How do you get Catherine from Christina?"

"Her real name's not Christina. She changed it when she came to America." I rolled my eyes.

"Well you've never said." He drawled.

"I thought you were quick?"

"Not that quick, Mama."

Annie smiled. "Your grandmother isn't from America?"

"We'll explain one day. It's a long story." I waved a hand.

"Mama's mixed." Noah shrugged.

"It's not that simple."

"Mama's mixed."

I hit him again. "Forget him!"

Annie grinned. "So Mercedes is your nickname?"

"No, my nickname is Mercy. Unless you count the British side of my family. They call me MercyCat."

"MercyCat? I like that. Can I call you MercyCat?"

"Sure." I closed my locker. "Want to come to the choir room with us? We don't do anything but talk & act crazy."

"Sure. Would it be okay? I can't join."

"Sure, you can!"

"I can't sing." She shook her head.

"I bet you can."

"I'm telling you, I can't."

"You don't have to audition." I pressed a kiss to her mouth.

She squeaked & blushed.

I liked that. I could see why Marcy went around kissing people all the time. Surprising them was a delight.

Noah grinned & kissed her, too.

I turned around & could see people talking already. No wonder Lucy did things. I didn't mind people talking about me when I was doing good. "Let's go before the bell rings."

So we set off down the hall. Noah held my left hand & Annie held my right. We stopped traffic. I mean everyone was looking at us.

We made it to the choir room & all conversation stopped.

Marcy sat up & opened her mouth.

"Shut up, devil." I cut her off.

She grinned but it wasn't over.

Mr. Shue stood up. "Hello? Are you looking to join glee club?"

Annie blushed but Noah answered for her. "Nah, Mr. Shue. She's with us."

"So we're in a thruple?" Tana pointed to Britt, Artie & herself. "They're in a thruple." She pointed to Marcy & Mal. "You're going to be a thruple?" She pointed to us before turning to Lucy. "Tick tock, Fabray."

Lucy got huffy. "Shut up, Santana!"

"Why can't you be good, devil doll?" Artie ran his hand over her thigh.

"You like me bad!" Tana threw her high pony over her shoulder, hitting him in the face.

He smiled goofily.

"Well welcome anyway." Mr. Shue told her. "The bell is about to ring so get ready to go to your classes."

"Sit next to me, Anna." Marcy patted the empty space next to her.

"No!" I pulled Annie to a seat on the other side of Mal. Noah sat next to her & pulled me onto his lap.

"So you're the girl Mercy likes?" Mal turned to her.

I forgot he was the devil, too. I slapped his arm. "Stop it!"

He grinned.

Marcy, who had her legs in his lap, suddenly leaned on him. "You are a very pretty girl."

"Marcy! No!" I wanted to punch her but she was too far away.

"I really like your eyes. You don't see grey too often." Marcy knew it, too & ignored me.

"With very fine features." Mal added. "It all works."

"I'm telling Ellen!" I yelled.

They looked at each other & sat back.

"I'm sorry about them." I told Annie. I ignored everyone else laughing. "They're bad."

"Aww, Mercy!" Mal grinned.

Marcy winked at me.

I growled at them. I knew Noah was laughing because I could feel him in my back. But it wasn't funny! These two are the devil!

The bell rang.

"Okay, guys!" Mr. Shue stood up. "Have a good day! I'll see you tomorrow!"

We all stood up & the others were chuckling at us but I was determined to ignore them.

I turned to Annie. "Want us to walk you to class?"

"You don't have to do that." She was so sweet.

But I could out-sweet her. "I insist."

"I already walk Mama." Noah added. "It'll be easy."

"Okay. Thank you." Annie nodded.

So we walked her to class.

On the way to mine, Noah squeezed my hand. "Do you think her parents will like us?"

"Parents love me." I boasted.

"I know. Moms is completely in your corner." He snorted.

I grinned. "Her parents are going to love the both of us & we'll have ourselves a girlfriend."

He squeezed my hand again.

S&M&P

Puck: POV

I approached Q at her locker after school before football practice. "Hey? Can we talk?"

She shut her locker. "Yeah. What's up?"

"Mama & I are going over to Kick's for dinner with her parents Saturday night. Will you watch Beth?"

She looked so lost. "Who's Kick?"

"Anna." I duhed.

"Wow." She said the word with her whole mouth.

"I don't need you making fun of me."

She waved a hand before I could gather steam. "I'll do it. But you have to watch her tomorrow night for me."

"What's tomorrow night?"

"None of your business."

"Q!"

She huffed. "Girls night if you must know!"

I can admit my mind wandered. "Cool."

She rolled her eyes. "Gross."

"I'm not-" I stopped lying. "So you will do it?"

"Yes. Pick Beth up tomorrow. I'll come get her how early on Saturday?"

"Seven." That would be enough time.

"Okay. See you tomorrow." She walked off.

I was surprised. This was the first time we've ever come to a decision. We used to fight like boxers in a ring, now we talked things out.

Maybe I was maturing?

S&M&P

Mama said I had to tell Moms about us & Kick but I didn't want to catch my chickens before they roasted.

I just got off the phone with Mama & she said if I didn't tell Moms about the situation, she would.

I almost wanted her to. But I was a man. A man had to do what a man does.

So I nutted up & approached Moms as she was folding laundry in the living room while watching an old Grey's Anatomy rerun. "Ma?"

"Hi, Noah. Have you done your homework?"

"Yeah, I'm just taking a break."

"What's going on?" She folded one of Nic's dresses.

I sighed & sat down in a chair. "Mama & I wanna hook up with somebody."

She stopped folding & frowned at me. "What?"

"Mama & I wanna be in a thruple with this girl, Anna."

"Thruple? What in the world is a thruple?"

"A relationship with three people."

She drew back. "You're pressuring Mercy into a relationship with another girl?!"

"No! It wasn't even my idea! Mama said she wanted to do this so I said yeah!" She would blame me!

"That sweet good girl really came up with the idea?" Moms obviously didn't believe me.

"Call her!"

She grabbed her phone off the table & dialed Mama's number. "Mercy? This knucklehead told me it was your idea to give him another girlfriend. Oh! It was your idea?! Why would you want to share him?! I suppose he'll be sharing you, too.

Really? Marcy & Quinn? I won't tell. Sexually fluid?! Girl, what do you know about your sexuality?! I guess you have a point.

I guess. No, I'm proud of you both for being honest. Okay. You let me know how your father takes it. He is? Do you want Noah to come over & spend the night?"

I started paying attention again.

"Okay. If you're sure. You do?! Well I guess nobody better break in! Okay. I'll talk to you later. Bye." Moms hung up & set her phone down before looking at me. "Be respectful of this new girl. & I want to meet her. Nic, Beth & I have to approve."

"Kick is awesome."

"Who?!"

"I call her Kick."

"Why? Never mind. Just invite her to dinner soon."

I stood up. "Will do." I stopped from going upstairs. "Why did you want me to stay the night?"

"Her father's out of town. He won't be back until Friday."

"She's in that house with a bunch of girls & babies?"

She smiled. "Apparently she & Marcy have black belts."

I had forgotten about that. "I forgot about that."

"Go finish your homework. Check on your sister for me."

I nodded & headed upstairs.

S&M&P

Mercedes: POV

I was really excited for Saturday night. Kurt & Lucy (& we made Marcy) helped me pick out a beautiful yet conservative outfit. It was a thick sweater dress in gold that I would be wearing with brown thigh high boots.

I would wear earrings (thin gold chandelier) & a tennis bracelet but that was all for my jewelry. I'd do my eyes in gold & pink with light blush & gold-brown lipstick. I had the perfect shade. I even picked out a different perfume to wear.

I really couldn't wait. Everything I knew about Annie was good although I never really got to know her through the years. She was just a random cheerleader that wasn't a bitch.

But she made nice grades, never talked back to teachers & was a great cheerer. By all accounts, she was a good girl. There was never any gossip about her.

But then again there was barely any about me.

I took it as a good sign because I'm still a good girl at heart. I might be a bit sassy but I was good.

I was thinking all this over as Coach let us have a break at lunch. We were drinking from our water bottles & Anna waved to me from the other side of the gym.

I waved back.

"Aww! Flirting with your girlfriend?" Tana cooed.

Britt, Lucy, T, Marcy & Kurt laughed.

I scowled at that mean girl. "Shut up, Santana!"

"I think it's cute you wanna get your lady kisses on. Sticking with one thing gets boring." She grinned.

I huffed.

T giggled. "I was up all night thinking up ship names for you."

I gasped. "T!"

"I couldn't help it! You guys are so cute together! You both get blushy around each other & Puck stops glaring at every guy that looks at you."

"He glares at other boys?" I didn't know that.

"Your boyfriend's über jealous." Lucy pointed out.

I wrinkled my nose at her. "So what's the name?"

"Amuck." T said proudly.

"A real word?" Marcy sounded impressed.

"Yep." T shifted side to side.

"So A for Anna, M for Mercedes & the rest is for Puck?" Britt sounded it out.

"Yep."

"I can top that." Marcy elbowed Tana.

"You have a name for us, too?" I asked.

"Nope. Fuinnchel."

"Fuinnchel?" I frowned as Tana & the others laughed & Lucy gasped in outrage.

"Finn, Quinn & Rachel." Marcy stuck her tongue out.

"Don't you dare spread that around!" Lucy raged.

"Why not?" Marcy mocked.

"I like it, Quinn." Britt said.

Lucy blushed. "We're not even together so it doesn't matter."

"Once the Hobbit gets her head cleared out, you'll be together." Tana waved that away.

Lucy narrowed her eyes. "Well your name is Bartana."

Tana wrinkled her nose. "So?"

"I even came up with a last name. FaBerrySon." Marcy took the heat off her.

Lucy frowned.

I beat her to the punch though. "I thought up a name for you guys. Melcy. M for Mal, E-L for Ellen & C-Y for Marcy. I didn't get as far as a last name though. What's Ellen's last name?"

"Majors." Marcy told me.

"I'll come up with one soon."

"Please don't."

"Nope!" I hugged her. "I gotta do it!"

"Do it, Mercy! Scar her good!" Lucy put her hands on her hips.

"Cuz that didn't sound creepy." Marcy stared at her.

We all laughed as Lucy facepalmed. "You know what I mean."

"Uh huh!" Tana wiped away tears.

We were giggling so hard, we didn't hear Coach walk up behind us. "Why did you sing that song?"

We jumped. "Coach?!"

"Why did you sing that song? In glee. Why did you sing that song?" She ignored us.

"The Girls Generation song?" T asked, confused.

She nodded once. "Explain."

"Mercedes wanted Anna to notice her." Britt said. "So Marcy & Quinn came up with the song & stuff & taught it to us even though Tina already knew it."

"Why'd you know a Korean song?" She glared at Marcy.

"Why wouldn't I?" Marcy glared back.

"Are you Korean?"

"No but I claim Japan & I know the Japanese version of those songs."

"Claim Japan? How do you claim a country that's not yours?"

"I do have Japanese family members." Marcy said like Coach was as bright as Finn.

"You mean Jackie Chan & Taiwan?"

"One more time?" Marcy was seriously confused.

"I think she means Mikey & Mal." Lucy narrowed her eyes.

"Who else would I mean?" Coach rolled her eyes.

"A Chinese person & someone from Taiwan." Marcy blinked. "You do know they're Japanese, don't you?"

"If I didn't, I do now."

"Wow."

"So you know Asian music?"

"I know a lot of music. I've been plenty of places."

"Your transcript reads like a travel agency's tour guide."

"I've been a lot of places." Marcy shrugged.

"Do all of you know other music?"

We told her what we were.

"Really?!" She seemed really shocked. "& you know music from these places?"

"We don't know a lot of German music but we know plenty of black music & Italian & Native American music." I nodded. "Plus other places."

"I know a lot of Swedish music." Lucy added.

"My mom likes Norwegian music but my dad doesn't listen to any Korean music. He likes gangster rap." Britt shrugged.

"I listen to all Latin music." Tana shrugged, too.

"I love K-pop!" T gushed. "It's some of my favorite music!"

"& you know these languages?" Coach went on.

Marcy told her the languages she speaks, Lucy told her the languages she speaks & I told her the languages I speak. Tana told her that she spoke English, French & two dialects of Spanish. T told her she spoke English, Yiddish & Korean. Britt said she knew English, a couple Korean swear words, a couple Norwegian phrases & a lot of Spanish from Tana & Artie. Kurt said he only knew English & French.

Coach nodded slowly. "I think I could use that. Do you know any other songs you could show us?"

"You mean right now?" Lucy wanted to make sure.

"Yes."

"A few." Her brows rose.

"Good." She turned to the other cheerleaders. "Break's over! Get on the bleachers & watch these tubby lardasses show you the new routine!"

"What?!" Lucy was shocked. We all were.

"You heard me. Get to teaching."

We looked at each other before walking to the front of the bleachers. I pushed Marcy in front. She was the one who came up with the moves.

She frowned at me. "Who's going to play the song?"

I went to my phone & set it on a loop. "Go ahead."

She blew out a breath before facing the crowd of girls (& guys) & starting out with the first move.

S&M&P

I walked around the corner to Lucy's house after I got home from rehearsals. Marcy drove. I don't know why. She wouldn't tell me.

Anyway, we arrived at the same time though (she left after I did) & let ourselves in with our keys.

We went up to Lucy's room & played with Beth, who was on the floor playing with her toys.

Lucy came from her closet. "Hey, guys."

"Hey." We spoke. We'd all changed into sweats, I noticed.

"Tana & Britt are on their way. Tana went to pick her up. Kurt is bringing Tina." She sat on the floor with us.

"Where's Ms. Judy?" I asked.

"She's here. I don't know where though."

"May!" Beth stood up & held onto Marcy's shirt.

Marcy kissed her cheek. "Betty!"

Beth stroked her cheek. "May."

"Come here, Bethie." I pulled her over. "Do you miss your cousins? They miss you. I know they do."

"Yeah, they light up when they see her." Marcy chuckled.

"Get in all the snuggles you can. Puck's coming to pick her up soon." Lucy said.

"Why?" I kissed Beth's sweet cheek.

"Because I wanted a girls night & I didn't want to ignore her."

Marcy lifted a shoulder as she reached out to poke Beth, who giggled. "Makes sense."

The doorbell rang. We all climbed to our feet. "It might be him now."

We went downstairs & to the front door. Lucy opened it & it was Noah. "Hey?"

"Hi!" I waved Beth's hand. "Say "hi, Papa!"."

Beth put her lips together then screamed "Papa!".

Noah took her from me. "Hey, baby. What up, Q? Mini Mama?"

"Sup, 'Zilla?" Marcy slapped hands with him.

"Hey, Puck." Lucy handed over a small bag & a blanket. "Here's her stuff."

"Thanks." Noah took it. "Where's my kiss, Mama?"

I smiled & kissed his cheek.

He gave me a dirty look. "What was that?!"

"There is a baby in our presence, freak!"

"Hold her, Mini Mama. Cover her eyes." Noah gave Beth to Marcy then dipped me & kissed me deeply.

I heard applause & broke away. Tana, Britt, T & Kurt were standing behind Noah, on the doorstep. I blushed. "Go home, Noah."

He took Beth back. "I'll be thinking about you."

I felt like I could touch the ceiling, I was floating so high. "Bye, Noah."

He winked at me & left.

Lucy waved the others in & closed the door. "We're in the den."

Tana just had to tease me as we all walked into the den. "Look at you!"

"Shut up, Lopez!" I blushed.

"I saw fireworks! How was it for you?"

I swatted her backside. "Stop it!"

Britt wrapped an arm around her girlfriend. "Be nice, San."

"I am nice!" Tana tossed her head.

Marcy & Lucy fell out laughing & Kurt snorted. T giggled. I scoffed.

She copped an attitude. "I am!"

"Nice to who?!" Marcy held onto Lucy.

"Herself!" Lucy was laughing just as hard.

Britt smiled at them. "San is very nice."

"To you & RT but the rest of us are hit!" Marcy held her stomach.

Tana flung herself on a couch. "Whatever! What we got to eat?!"

"We can order Chinese & watch movies but we should really get started on spa stuff first." Lucy calmed down.

"My hair is going to take the longest." Marcy gathered all her hair up & dropped it.

"I can help you with your hair." Kurt promised. "I can help all of you. It's why I'm here."

Lucy got the boxes of blonde hair dye. "I'll get the foil."

Kurt took the boxes from her & opened them. "I wonder how it'll look?"

Marcy shrugged. "I just need a change."

"I'm going to miss your color. It makes you look mysterious."

"Eh." She started preparing her bottles.

Lucy came back with the foil & began opening the other packs of dye. We had red, pink, green, blue, purple, black & blonde.

We mixed the dyes in their special bottles then tore off strips of foil to fold our hair in then added the dye we were using.

Lucy was dying her hair pink & black. The lowlights would be black & the highlights would be pink but she'd still have some blonde hair. She said she wanted to take a risk…

Marcy was dying her hair blonde with green & blue locks. She literally put blonde on all but twelve locks of hair, on which she put color.

Tana was dying locks of her hair red & blonde. Her lowlights would be red & her highlights would be blonde. I already knew she would look awesome when her hair was finished.

T was dying her hair blue & blonde. She wanted a mix of who she was & who she wants to be. Her lowlights would be blue & her highlights would be blonde. I couldn't wait to see how it turned out.

I went with red & purple myself. My lowlights would be purple & my highlights would be red.

Lastly, Britt was going rainbow mode. She was having entire locks of hair as one color or another. She chose the left overs of red, purple, blue, green & pink.

Kurt helped us all then decided to add a bit of black to his hair just so he could use foil, too & fit in.

We ordered Chinese & popped in a movie to watch. Since we're cheerleaders, we chose Bring It On.

Ms. Judy wandered in after the doorbell rang. "Your food's here."

"Thanks, Mom." Lucy grabbed our money & went to pay.

Ms. Judy smiled at us. "I need to call Jeanette for a girls spa day."

"It would have been choice if someone else did all this." Marcy grumbled.

Ms. Judy giggled. "Enjoy your night."

"Why don't you join us?" I asked.

"Oh no. I don't want to interrupt your fun. I have things to do."

"If you're sure."

"I am. I'll check in on you later." She walked out as Lucy came in with the food.

Lucy set the food on the table. "Should we wax first or eat?"

"Wax." Marcy nodded once. "We can paint our nails & do facials after we wash out our hair."

"Which will be soon." Kurt checked the clock.

"Well let's get started."